The BlackBerry Priv is starting to make its way into the hands of eager customers and the early indications say that it’s not a half bad first effort from BlackBerry. Sure, the privacy features aren’t exactly all they were cooked up to be, but for the most part, the device is a pretty decent Android flagship. It doesn’t appear that BlackBerry is done with Android either, with new renders of what appear to be another Android-powered device, this time codenamed the BlackBerry Vienna (the Priv was codenamed ‘Venice’).
Unlike the Priv, the Vienna appears to have a permanent QWERTY keyboard that can’t be hidden via a slide, and the on-screen home keys have turned into actual buttons. While we’re assuming that BlackBerry would keep the same capacitive technology that allows the keyboard to be used as a scroll button, it’s definitely not a look that many Android users will be used to. All the same, we do applaud BlackBerry for sticking to their guns and using their own formulas rather than defaulting to what everyone is used to.
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Source: CrackBerry via Droid-life
